Despite the intense continued cold spring began in St. Petersburg Botanical Garden.

The festive was celebrated for the 8th time together with the tourists from neighbouring Lithuania and Poland.

The visitors of the Ural Museum of Astronautics will be allowed to launch rockets.

The Hermitage Museum cleaning will cost 5 million roubles.

The first ceremony of the Kremlin Regiment guard mount was celebrated in Moscow.

The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Buryatia stands for «preservation» of the Xiongnu ancient settlement. The results of the excavations that took place in the 50-s proved that the settlement is a large military, commercial, artisanal, and economic center of the Xiongnu empire.

The Zolotoy Rog Bridge will be opened for the pedestrian traffic till the deep night on the 1st of May.

Krasnoyarsk population for the 1st of January, 2013 is 1 million 16 thousand 385 people. During a year the population size has increased for more than 19 thousand people or by 2%.

A modern perinatal center will be built in Noyabrsk (Yamal) till the year 2014.

A regional center of prevention and fight against AIDS and communicable diseases, the construction of which started in the 1994, was opened in Irkutsk.